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Flopping sedum, cosmos trees
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Posted by kaumann 6 (kaumann@ccp.edu) on Thu, Aug 24, 06 at 17:58
Howcome my upright sedum are flopped down like open umbrellas instead of standing upright like everyone else's that I see? Do they need to be divided? When?
Why are my cosmos grown to 5 feet tall with a big thick stalk, few flowers and falling over instead of behaving well and flowering copiously like all the othere I see? Should I be cutting them back at some point?
PS-My daylilies looked terrible, too. I whacked them back to the ground and they have sprouted up nice new leaves and look much better.
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RE: Flopping sedum, cosmos trees
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- Posted by lindac Iowa Z 5/4 (My Page) on
Fri, Aug 25, 06 at 12:10
Sounds to me like too much mirical gro...
Pinch the sedum and the cosmos about mid june...that should help with the flopping.
And day lilies do look a bit ratty this time of the year....but they will make big clumps faster if you don't cut off the leaves and force the plant to make more leaves instead of growing and storing energy in the roots.
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RE: Flopping sedum, cosmos trees
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| You have a very special cosmos plant that will reward you with 100's of flowers in September. I always pulled them out, thinking they were overgrown, flowerless monsters, but one year I let them grow and was amazed at what those plants produced. So stake them up as best as you can and just wait for the glorious show. As for the sedums, put a peony ring around them in early spring, before the stems grow up through them. You will have a lovely plant. Enjoy! |
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